Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1884, Page 4

SR — e ——— i 4 e e e OMAHA PMALLY BEE---MO!] DAY. AUGUST 18, 1884. A= THE OMAHA BEE. Omaha Office, No. 016 Farnam St. Council Blufts OMce,iNo, 7 Pearl St ®treot, Near Broadwayf | Now York Office, Room 65 Tribune Building. Pablished every worning, except Sunday' The only Monday morning daily WM BT MATI. 10.00 | Threo Months nth One_Year 8ix Monos. . TR WREKLY BEN, I TARMS PORTPAID, STUYOAL. ... ... . 82.00 | Threo Months.......8 80 S Mot ... 1.0 | Ono Month 0 an Nows Company, Sole Ageate, Nowsdoal Ame: e in the Uni CORRRSFONDANOR. sting to News and Editoria oations T bo addressod to the Koiron or Tix o nddre PUSINNSS LRYTRRS, and Reinittances should b PURRIING COMPANT, QUANIA ors to bo mado pay Tateors All R addrossed to Tus Bra Dratta, Cheoks and Post able to the order of the comy HE BEE PUBLISHING [0, PROPY' E. ROSEWATER, ditor. A. . Fitch, Manager Daily Ciroulation, P, 0.Box &8 omaha, Neb. P —— TaERE 18 altogether oo much Ameri- can banking capital being transferred to Canada. P Jia Laten'é triends are of tho opinion that he will benominated on the first bal- lot.—Adams County Democral. We presume that that means his dem- ocratic friends. ] Bex Burier has concluded not to wait for Cleveland to come out of the woods with his letter of acceptance but to inflict upon the country on Tuesday morning the longest campaign address of tho sea- son. Tyk campaign song writers havo turned out 125 Blaine and Logan and 60 Cleve- lane and Hendricks songs. The average «campaign song 18 composed of a senseless arrangement of new words eet to old music. e Two years ago Laird banked on Van Wyck’s certificate of character. Now that that certificate has been cancelled he has used the telegraph very freely to get certificates of sobriety, morality and fidelity frem Senator Manderson. i iy Tie headquarters of the Irish national Toague aro to be moved from Boston: to Lincoln Nebraska, Prosident Fgan has do- cidod to make Lincoln his permanent home, and henco the move. This will give Lincoln considerable prominence as an Irish-American head center. —_— Tue Omaha Herald is now earning its Union Pacific subsidy. It is carrying out the contract to aid the Credit Mobil- fer concern 1n its effort to bluff and mys- tify the government officers in their in- vestigation into its extortionate charges for transportation of government supplies, HEAD OR TAIL? An ingenions and original unite the democratic party, and to create harmony in New York and other doubt- ful statos, has been suggested by a writer in the New York S?ar. Under this plan it is proposed to give the voters fall op- portunity to express their preferences. Thus in New Jersey and Connecticut the voters who prefer Cleveland can head their ticket with Cleveland, and those who prefer Hendricks can head their ticket with Hendricks and put Cleveland at tho tail. In New York, however, where the names of candidates are not permitted to be placed upon the ticket, the names of electors can be transposed 50 as to indicate the voter's preference as between Cleveland and Hendricks, For example, a Cleveland elector can be placed at the head of a ticket, which would show the but if a voter wishes to express a prefer- ence for Hendricks, he can put at the head of his ticket the name of an elector who is known to be a friend of that can- didate. It is simply a neat litttle game “‘heads I win and tails you lose.” 1f Cleveland carries Now York at the head of his ticket, the electors are to cast their votes for him for prosident; but if more democrats expross their preference plan to voter's preferenco; for Hondricks, than for Cleveland then the electors are to vote for him for president; but if liead of tho ticket. This is a novel and refreshing scheme, and no doubt would bo acceptable to the friendsof Hendricks, as it would give them an opportunity of making him pres- ident afterall. It is indisputable fact that he is the abler man by far, and that he has a great many more friends than Cleveland. There has been considerable talk about withdrawing Cleveland, but this plan would obviate any such a disa- greeable measure. It the plan should be adopted the democrats in case of victory would put Mer. Hendricks in the chief executive chair. It is not unlikely that John Kelly and his Tammany crowd will urge its adoption, as they could then consistently vote and work for the democratic ticket headed by Hendricks. The inventor of this double back-action scheme maintains that if Cleveland will agree to abide by the decision of the voters of New York, Now Jorsey and Connecticut as to whoth- er he will take first or second place, the vlection of Cleveland and Hendricks or Hendricks and Cleveland will be assured. After all, this plan is not so novel as the inventor imagines. During the first seventeen years after the adoption of the constitution, in place of the arti- cles of confederation, the election of president and vice-president was conducted in very much the same man- ner. The man who received the highest number of votes was elected president, and the man receiving the next highest ‘Warr Streer methods are not con- fined to that great financial conter. The leading banker of Lausanne, Switzerland, ‘who swamped his bank by speculating on the Paris Bourse, has been sentenced to the full penalty of the law, two years im- prisonment at labor and ten years depri- wvation of civil rights, GENERAL THAYER 18 to be the com- mander of the Grand Army encampment, which begins at Fremont on the 1st of Soptember. The friends of Governor Dawes think that the old veteran is al- together too old to fill the chair now occupied by that stay-at-home man of straw. By request from the state prohibition committee we publish a call for a state convention of the followers of the latter- day St. John, We prosume the aim and object of this movement is not so much a deep-laid design to/capture the eleetoral vote of Nebraska for St. John as it is to keep up the agitation of temperance and prohibition. What the effect of this third or fourth ticket will be on the out- come in Nebraska we do not undertake to predict. Wittiam H, BArNun, chairman of the democratic national committee, who claims to be ananti-monopolist had thirty annual railroad patses stolen from him at a Chicago hotel, and he is now called on to explain how he could consistently travel on free transportation in the inter- est of Grover Cleveland, and yet be an anti-monopolist. In the language of the Chicago Herald, *‘thirty annual passes indicate rather too wide an acquaintance number of votes was elected vice presi- dent. Whoen Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were rival candidates for the presidency, it was generally believed that Jefferson counted himself in without going behind the returns, and the twelfth amendment to the constitution was thereupon adopted, establishing the present system of indirect elections through presidential electors. In case this game of ‘‘head and tail’ should be agreed upon between Cleve- Iand and Hendricks,there woufd be noth- ing to hinder the democratic electors from carrying it out, providing all of them in the democratic states would cast their votes for the same men. If the Cleveland electors should happen to play oft on Hendricks by voting their prefer- ence after election, in spite of their agreement before the election, there would be no cholce in the electoral college, and the election would be thrown into the house. That would make Cleveland president, and leave Hendricks out entirely, because the sen- ate being republican would elect Logan. It seewms to us that this plan of harmon- izing the democracy to carry the doubt- ful states is all very favorable to Clove- land, but affords no assurance to Hen- dricks, 1t is a jng-handle scheme. OPERATIVE EXPENSES. The taking of testimony in the Union Pacific-United-States ‘‘imbroglio” was continued yesterday, Mr. Kimball boing kept on the stand nearly all day. Mr. Blair, the government attorney, went through a rather ludicrous performance of mental gymnastics in & vain endeavor to with the railroad magnates for an humble and anti-monopolist workingman's friend.” Tur enforcement of the Iowa prohi- ~cannot but result eventually to the dis- advantage to those engaged In making violent demonstrations, such as recently tangle the experienced railway manager in his statements as to the propriety of charging the cost of new depots, ete, to operating expenses. Mr, Kimball took the matter very cooly and going into ex- haustive details, explained how the con- struction in question was neceas for the proper and economical operation of h d therefore a lawful charge against that branch of the business.— Omaha Herald, ‘We don't believe Mr, Blair, the gov- enormous income from the bridge was offsct by alleged “‘operating expenses” of that structure, varying from £250,000 to | 300,000 & year. Mr. Kimball probably | would not have kept cool if he had been compelled under oath to tell what items made up that £250,000 a year in operat ing the bridge. In those days there were lavish expenditures for senatorial cam- | paigna. Possibly Mr. Kimball might have re and then again he might not the ‘‘operating ex- penses” at Lincoln in 1876 and 1878, when from £100 to $200 wero paid for Welsh, Valentine The oxpenses of operating membered have remembered delegates to nominate and Nance, John M. Thurston's oil room at during the sonatorisl canvass of 187, and the expenses incurred in operating a gang of political shysters in Saunders, Butler, Polk, Madison, Gage Stanton counties to force fraudulent bonds upon the homes of farmers, were a 8o omitted from Mr., Kimball's schedulo. Tho expenses incurred in fixing juries, county commlssioners, and members of the legislature, do not appear to be among the things that the managers of the Union Pacific have kept account of in their audit of operating expenses. And the pay of the whole horde of politi- cal hangers-on, strikers and Dlowers, which are charged to operating expenses asa matter of convenience, has “not tangled the experienced railway manager in the least. " Lincoln and COWIN AND WEAVER. Tue man who talks of Mr, John C, Cowin for congress from this district is not the true friend of Mr. John C. Cowin. Undoubtedly Mr. Cowin could be elected—unmistakably he would be an ornament to tho house and a conspic- uous credit to his constituency; but there are some men who cannot afford to go to Washington as members of the lower house, and Mr. Cowin is one of them. Tue Bee's talkof Mr Cowin is unauthor- ized and insincere. The gentleman is not a candidate—indeed, he would not have the office if it were tendered him. Mr. Rosewater simply desires to throw stones at Mr. Weaver, and he hides be- hind Mr. Cowin in order to doit.— Omaha Republican. There may be some men who cannot afford to go to the lower house of con- gress, but there are others whom the party cannot afford to nominate when it isself-evident that they are not liable to get there. This is not a question of per- sonal friendship to Mr. Cowin or un- friendliness toward Mr. Weaver. 1t is purely and simply an exercise of sound discretion, But the true friends of Mr. Cowin, who think he would be an “ornament to the house and a conspic- uous credit to his constituency,” are not among those who fear he cannot afford to become a candidate. Granting that it would bo a great pecuniary sacrifice for Mr. Cowin to take a seat in congress, we malntain that there are periodsin thelife of men and partles when sacrifices must be made. As to the sneer with which ref- erence is made to his inability to afford to take a seat in the lower house we say that a man of first class ability can distinguish himself and serve the country with as much credit in the lower house as he can in the upper house. In fact no man ought to be sent to the sen- ate who has not either acquired an exten- sive legislative experience either in state legislatures or the lower house of con- gress. The greatest orators and states- mon of this country have served in the lower house. John Quincy Adams, even after he had been president of the United States, regarded it as an honor to become a member of the house of representatives, In our time Roscoe Conkling, John Sher- man, James A. Garfield, John A. Logan, and last, but not least, James i. Blaine graduated from the house into the sen- ate and cabinet The Brr has not urged the nomination of Mr. Cowin at his requost or by au- thority. On tho contrary wo have stated very oxplicitely that ho was nota candi- date in any sense of the term, which the word implies. Tur Bek desires to sup- porta republican whose abilities are con- ceded and whose election is assured with his nomination. Mr. Weaver isnot such a candidato, and Mr, Cowin is. Let the republicans nominate Mr. Cowin, and wo beliove he will accept the honor even if he has to make a sacrifice. The Bex never hides behind any man in order to throw stones at another. We have treated Mr, Weaver with perfect candor and fairnoss and he has been forced to admit it. The Bex has no fav- ors to ask from any congressman, and i proprietors have paid out in support of candidates a hundred dollars where they have received ten THE MAN OF STRAW. | Who Wants to Play Governor Another A Vew Reasons \Q'II‘ny' he !Ehould Be Shelved--The First Must Nominate a Man We Oan Eleer, District Nernaska Crry, Neb,, Aug. 15, To the Editor of Tne Bre: The action of the Saline county con- vention in allowing Governor Dawea to name the delegates to the sta tion, establishes a precedent in the polit- ical history of the state; and it will bo in perfect keeping with this precedent to allow Mr, Dawes to name his successor when the state conve Omaha on tbe 27th inst. conven ion assembles in And if it is the intention of the ‘‘ring master” to make him the standard bearer, it would be better for the party to concede thatmuch to hini, so that when he is defeated, an he certainly will be, Dawes, and not the party will bo to blame, With the record he has made in two years past by commutting the sentences of two criminals who were condemned to the gallows, and his being hung in effigy by the Hall county people; and his action in retaining certain officers in power after the matter had been thoroughly investigated by the legisla- ture; and other points to be shown up hereafter, the republicans prefer to nom- inate him in preference to such true and tried men as Col, J. B. Dinsmore of Clay, Col. Crabb of York, Hon.J. W. Gilchrist of Saunders, Gen. Thayer of Hall, Mr. Burton of Harlan, and others that I could mention, and be defeated. The whole blame must not rest altogether upon Mr. Rosewater. For the subscriber knows quite a sprinkle of straight-out deep-dyed-in-the-wool re- publicans who will never vote for him, and they are not such cowards as to go “‘ducking” when the polls are opened, like Mr. Weaver did last fall. OTOE COUNTY fully endorses the nomination of John C. Cowin, Captain G. M. Humphrey or Judge Amasa Cobb for congress from this district, believing that either of these men could be elected beyond a doubt, while on the other hand some of us have very grave doubts about Mr. Weaver ever being his own successor. Weaver and Dawes and_ thoeir backers both think that Blaine and Logan can pul any'tail through that the party can nominate. That used to be the case in Nobraska whea tho party made a tail out of better material than is now presenting itself. What the republican party wants this fallis a very strong tail to the national ticket in order to wag the head through. And with such men as I have already named for governor of the state, and congressman of the first district, all hades can’t defeat us. Jo W. P RMAN, e — Dawes to the Rear, Wood River Gazette, It is ovident to the person who keops his ears opon and listens to public opin- ion that a majority of voters of this sec- tion of Nebraska do not desire the elec- tion of Jumes W. Dawes to the executive office. Whatever may be the cause of the dissatisfation elsewhere, it has arisen Jarnum of the great Demoeratic The only how ia called “‘a chairman for revenue ¢ By the way.if Clovela n't Hendricks write The fate of Thurman and Hoadly is n sad indication that the Oh man is losing his grip on the ¢ of his country, The Barnum wire works in Detroit have failed, but the political wire-pullers will con tinue business at the old stand. John has not Neithor has atter, been ral Washir He swears The prohibi over the otk for mass me T r parties, ' nge and p hy the sea serp: ason heen seen this y because the real liars are all eng political documents Every man wholhas thus far dropped poetry on the Cleve i n his he o southern confedracy has ot another hold on poor old Missouri, in the nation of Marmaduke for gover ident of this Bglorious la looks a good deal fike an adobe hut - mud, Logan's first lotter of acceptance was writ ten to a tobacco manufacturer in Virginia, ac ecnting a packago of smoking tobaceo,—[ Now Orleavs Picayune, A fortnight's pull at the tarry ropes of his elegant yacht searcely will harden Ben But- ler’s handa sufficiently to make them worth showing to his feilow laboring men, an_astonishing roldier, sailor, poet trian and button hole boqy ol 12 imer coatetafl fancy man, bub politically he is a complete old,corkscrew twisting about without regard to consoquences,—[ Hartford Times, Y “Clall off your dogs,” shouts one partisan editor, “Call off your dogs,” retorts the edi- tor of the other party's organ. Hold, gentle- V, b the whole campaign? Wo will 1 this country is revived. Baked shote, fresh buttern ilk and home-made bread will win votes when every- thing clse fails, A word to Grover Cleveland: Ben Butler is laying for you with a loaded blunderbuss when you come out of the North Woods. Bet- ter keep under cover as long as possble - [Kansas City Journal, An exped object of finding John Kelly, who is supposed to b snowed up somowhere near Saratoga. He had gone on a cutting-out expedition in the direction of the poll, Johnny McLean carries the democratic party around in his breeches pocket, but is so saturated with Standard oil that if any one waa to touch a match to Johnny or the party both would go up in a chariot of fire, Tin battle-axes will be carried by enthusi tic voters during the presidential” camy Another exemplification of the eternal of things, every e J.W ave been complete, genuine politics in barbecue ness ““Fin” is the great desideratum of tician who has an axe to grind, ren Keiter's vindication seems to i Lvery ward in his own county voted to keep him away from congres Wao do not know what Keifor will do for a living now, but we hope he will join 2. B. Hayes in the poultry bu Another touching spectacla of the present am . Chandler sidling up sine with harmony in his smile d_soft solder streaming from ninds us of a emall boy trying o with o hornet’s nest.—| Chicago d the soap « 1 toc News. Just to think of ] lican party has e of the stats of Mississippi, and date of the national party for vice-president, anmounces that he will not support Cleveland, rumors to the contrary mnotwithstand Great Heavens! What if General M. We: had thrown his weight into the Cle d bal- ance? The campaign might as well have stop- ped right here. here from his injudicious and undue ex- ercise of the pardoning power and inter- ference with the execution of the law as directed by the courts both district and supreme. His excellency may be pos- sessed of a sympathetic natura and ap- peals for mercy may have induced him to lean to the side of mercy, but if this be true the reason is all the more apparent why he should not be re-nominated or re- elected. To long as there 1s a statute providing for the death penalty, so long should Nebraska have an_executive with nerve and_stamina enough to say “‘no” when the imploring appeals of friends, and attornoys and weak kneed sympa- thizers came in asking for pardons and commutatione, ¥rom other portions of the state we hear this same complaint against the Gov. whose actions as a feeble executor raged people. True Gov, Dawes may be an exemplary ropublican, and _the for- vicos he has heretoforo rendered the party may hayo hoen such as to entitle him to reward, but justice and the rights of the pooplo should not suffor by reason of the party’s obligations to him. The executive officer of a nation, state, cor- poration or any organized body should be a man possessed of nerve and courage sufficient to guard the interests of his constituonts and, inasmuch as our pres- ent governor has failed in numerous in- stances to do this, he should either bo re- tired or placed in some other position where ho can reap a full reward for party services and at the same timo be_power- less to prevent the execution of the law of the commonwealth, The republican party of Nebraska has plenty of men who can fill the bill and the Gazstte would bo pleased to see one of the number chosen to succeed the man whose administration w0 far us the enforcement of criminal law is concerned, has been a failure. Congressional Nominations. Philadelphia Call, In various parts of the country nomi- nations are being made for congress, On this subject we have an earnest suggestion to offer. It is that republicans put for- werd the best materlal they have. Mere availability, while important, ought to cents in return, directly or indirectly. 1f the republicans want to take the advice of Mr. Weaver's fool friends, and force him upon the ticket in the face of proba- ble defeat, let them do so, If defest _ocourred st lowa Oity, Burlington and [ernment attorney, had any intention to [ does come in November, they cannot other places. At Iowa ity parties en- | entangle the experienced railway mana. |18y the blame at the door of this paper. gagea in the enforcement of the law were mobbed, and two of the ringleaders of the aflair were arrested. In Burlington an attempt was made to blow up the house of Mr. Blake, who has been en- geged in the prosecution of saloon-keep- ers, The friends of the law and order league assert that it was the work of the saloon-keepers and their allies who have been so vigorously prosecuted. Whether this is true remains to be proven. It|der influences that made him harmless seems that Lawyer Blake had dismissed | so far as prosecuting the Union Pacific a case against a saloon-keeper upon the payment of & certain sum of money to the law and order league, and he was ar- the charge of compounding & pub- lic felony. That the saloon- keepers ha become desperate in anany of the large towns in Yowa cannot be denied, and that they propose to re- forcement of the law is but a natural «conclusion, ger. Judging from past experience the department of injustice in Washington merely wanted Mr, Blair to go through the forms of propounding certaln ques- tions which would enable the managers of the Union Pacific to sustain their ex- tortionate claims against the govornment, From Landaulet Williams to Devens and Brewster, every head of the depart- ment of justice has been more or less un- for any violation of its charter, fraudu- lent land subsidy or bogus claim, “Operating expensea” on the Union raigned before a justice of the peace on | Pacific has been & very convenient term It covers ununecessary does of a While the Union sort to every measure to defeat the en-,Pacitic bridge robberies and swindles with a bravado that|Gh for all sorts of expenditures. a8 many varieties of purchases and outlays as the bill of funeral expenses defunct congressman, were carried on would do honor to & highwayman, the A New Yonrk state law provides a fine of $60 for willful baggage smashing. This is considered a direct blow at the trunk manufacturers. Dawes' Lieuten By the way, what Is the name of our gifted licutenant-governor? 1s it ague or malarial—[Ozana Bek, Giveit up. 1t is probably bronchitis, —[Plattsmouth Journal, Wo believe it is something like a G. Where does he live!—[Nebraska City News, 1t is very funuy that you fellows do not know him, He lives at Aurora, in the county of Hamilton, and is the man who said he was ‘‘more interested in sending the G. A. R, boys to the penitentiary than interesting himself in their society.” He is Governor Dawes' lioutenant,— [Adams County Paper, e —— Indian jDeviltry, Mives Crry, Montana, August 16, —Roving Jheyounes are burning grass in the Powder river yalley, Damage heavy, Stockmen are preparing against thew, give way to qunlltx. It has been the curse of the past that men have been sent to congress who_have not been qualified for its duties. In the large number of this fort is to be found the reason that legislation grucl{:nodod for the good of the country has been totally negl‘ected. And it is this that works injury to the party as well as to the country. The people hold the party in power responsible for the good™ or ill the con- gross it controls may do. And if poth- ing is done, where much is expected, the ovil is fully appreciated. The fault of the past is that nothing was done where important legislation was required. Hence a feeling of discontent, which will be seen in the coming election, The people are inclined to %old represonta- tives in congress to thelr responsibility. And this is intelligently understood. The old allegiunce to party is not so strongly felt these days, and actual wer- vice is now looked to as important. We simply remind our republican friends that these points deserve attention in making the nominations for the coming election, POLITICAL POPOOKN, o) TPammany is a coquette in whom there is great deal of guile. There is somo danger of the campaign bar- rels getting wet. Arthur’s cnthusiasm for Blaine has not spoiled his usefuluess as a fisherman, | MecDonald’s men and Hendrick's men do . not recognize each other as they pass by, of tho law is being resented by an out- |} — PERSONALITIES, Dr. Mary Walker does not wear a ‘“Mother Hubbard.” Licutenant Grecly is not a West Pointer. Hels o North pointer. Mr, Julius Cacsar Burrowe, of Michigan, has a Methodist camp meoting voico, Minnie_Palmer did not refuse to allow Queen Victoria to kiss her hand, as reparted. Mr. Locke of Toledo is known in Paris as “Petroloum O'Nasby.” They evidently think him a Frenchman, ¥x-Lieutenant Flipper, of West Point fame, is an honoved resident of LI Paso, Toxas, where he gives lessons in hazing. Mr. A. 1L Swan, of Cheyenne, is said to control more live stock than any other man on the continent, not_excopting John Kelly, General Grant, Commodore Garrison and other poor bankrupts are managing to kecp up their usual style at Long Dranch this sum- , Kasson will find the society marck just as able as t of republicans this fall, There is no law in Berlin, Tanhaio, the Maori king, carries an umbrel- Ia, anc wears a tall with a black d. He reminds the beholder of a royal fin: er en route to Canada. Lieutenant Schwatka, who explored endless Aroti ms and returned unharmed, fell over ac »wn parlor the other day and broke When Emma Abbott kisses she noice like that of drawing a two-by-four down the side of a clapboard house, but we fear her heart is cold and hard like a restaurant po- tato, Tom Nast uscd to picture Carl urtz as a out of ing skelaton grinding harmony hand organ. Now ho and Schurtz drink beer out of tho same glasy and luuch off the eame bretzel, Jair, the driver of Mand S, gets 810,000 for his part inSaturday’s performance, balf for low o' record and half for beat- ing 's record a little southern ming that all men Their mot- Miss Byrd, the editress papar, is said to be so cha }nl in love with her at first sight. to probably is: **A Byrd in arms is worth two in tho bush, Carter Harrison, the Ben Butler of the west, H 5 described as one who looks as Ge Leo looked twenty-five years ago, He thin bair on top, but_more copious gray side locks, and a military faco, indicative of good living, gray, full bened, worn like & confederate general In the war, and a strong mouth, full of white teeth, nearly perfect. Ho has bluo eyes, and while hin address in gengral in offhand and cordial, ho has lostnono of the Kentucky method of bringiug hls wholo. tem- er to tho front, His age is 60, and ho hails rom *Kentucky, sah.” C — STATE JOTTINGS, Another elovator has been built at Wood River. Two churches are under eonstruction at Doniphan, Plattsmouth boasts of three Cleveland and Hendricks clubs, The Valley county fair will be held at Ord, Septewber 23d to 25th, Plum Creek is poetically called *‘a gem set in an emerald diadem.” A steam fery istobe established on the Missouri at Blair next month, *Lhe Burt County News has pulled up stakes at Tekama and moved to Oakland. The corner stone of the new Methodist church at Hubbell will be laid next Saturday- Bill Hayen, an itinerant horse doctor, from Towa, was killed by the cars at North Bend last week The Dakota City Eagle ran against two horse trader, last week, und now carries both optics in MoUrBing. The commissioners of Thayer county have decided to build six biidges over the streams of the county, to cost 87,297, The State Line Register, of Hubbell, an nounces J. H. Sticke) as anti-monopoly candi- date for congre 0 the second district, The Lincoln News says ‘‘blooded Steeds, scrubs, mules and jackasses” are now training for the legislative race in Lancaster county. Frederick, the two-year old son of John on will start this week with the | Christianson, of Tekamah, got hald of fa ot tle of carbolic acld and _swallowed enough to 1l hiin, Hastings would like to get the branch sol t unloosed his purse strings to cover Platts Jouth’s pile The Sioux City & Pacific railrond company has commenced constricting o larga office building in Norfolk, to be used for division beadquarter Same unhuman wratch raided the pastare of Dr. Acklog, near Juniata anc ¢ Killed a cow and pig with an ax. The bodics were horribly mutilated, Cellars were filled, dewalk: ay and mich da s choler 260, and Murray f a drove of hields lost 100, Clarence H, Wilder of Adam stumbled on a Sumbling rod runn ing machine, and waes almost scalped, His clothes cavght on the revelving rod anc were torn from his body. Martin Ryan, who shot Dan_Foloy kota City, was hold in_£4,000 bonds ult'of the wound he inflicted rushed by the bullet and his chs ery are small, The employes of the Unfon Pacific Platte are still_on a strike, claiming settlement made with the Denver del does not cover their grievances, and th at North hat the ion pro- to fight it out on the striking till every demand is conceeded, er, a echool ma'am of Table was thrown from her horse last Mon day and severaly injured, Her foot leaught in the stirrup sha wa wed over the rough road ble dista ides bes ing k by the h William a masher living neax Lonisvill was waited upon by the she provious w notoriously 1 in il for complicity i the Louisville” car rol» The corn-fields in Butler county, says the David City Republican, are simply immense, and cvery indication points to the largest coru crop ever raised in this country, The non- sumptuary individuals are rejoicd, as the juice of corn will be produced in ereat abun danco, Dodga county has struck it. Tha report comes from Jamestown that George P. Davis, while sinking a well went theongh throe veins coal the first two very elight, but the last > (120 feet, bolow the surfacs) a vein of con- siderable thickness, The find will be thor- oughly investigated. The Donnchrog seftlement, sixtoon miles north of Grand Island, was thrown into the wildest excitement on Sunday last by the sav- age froaks of a mad dog. Iiefore the canine was killed ho ucceeded in biting seven head of cattle. After being shot threo times he attacked a German woman, named Roush,and tho brave woman pinnod her rabid assailant to tho ground with a pitchfork. The Missouri Valloy and Blair rai ay and 3ridga Co, filed articles of incorporation with fy of statea few days ago. This Blair bridge to the U incorpor ams, Marvin E, Hall and the cor- the town of souri Valley, Harrison county, Towa, to Blair, ashington nty, Nebraska, and extending thence tosuch pointsand on such routs or rontes in Nebraska as may hereafter be desi ther with the con- nd operation of a across the Missouri river, con- d raslroad in Iowaand Ne- e — CITY WALKS AND TALKS. ——*‘ geo that the Glee club is going to disband, if the statements published in one of the papers are true. What do you know about it?” Such was the ques- tion put by the Ber's Man About Town to a prominent member of the Omaha Glee Club, who replied: *‘The newspa- per article to which you refer gave as one of the causes of dissolu- lution of the club, ‘alack of interest among the members,’ etc. One would suppose after reading that article, that it was inspired by a member of the club, and if such is the case he was certainly quite fresh, as nothing has transpired thus far to warrant any one in saying that the club was about to collapse. Mr. Raff is not the first president to resign from the club, and if the writer of the article had called at the Savings bank and read over the resignation, he would hardly - | have said Mr. Raff left the club in dis- gust. It has been the practice of the club to adjourn over from about May 1st to October 1st of each year, and 1884 has not been an exception to the general rule. The only trouble the club has ever met with was caused by the dishonesty of one of its members, who robbed it of 0 cash, which caused a deficiency of about $200 at the end of the scason. 1t made some of the members feel & little chilly when they contemplated puiting thair hands down into their pockets to make up for that steal, but the asscssment has been made and is being paid, and when- ever the season opens the club will take hold and give their Omaha friends and adinirers a more brilliany serics of con- certs than ever before.” **x ——**Well, Charley, how are you got- ting along with your paving contracts?’ asked the Bee's Man About Town of Charles E. Squires, of the Asphalt pav- " |and mix thoso babies up. ——— A —————————————— ha. Upon inquiry I find that they pay for the equare meter—a trifle more than a yard— sixteen marks, or about $4.00, and while they can have stone much cheaper they prefer asphalt. Stnoe [have seen all this I have felt soery that a fow old-moss-backs, who mnever leave their shell, could carry their point to have Farnam street paved with granite, and I think they will live to see it taken up and replaced with asphalt. You can be as- sured of one thing and that is that I am for asphalt now for all our level strects, and wood or macadam for our hills, Nc stone in mine. — 4T admit that one of the most pro lific crops in Nebraska ia babies,” re marked a well-to-do “but I ty of having & baby It ecems that citizen, question the propri show at the state fai the managers of the fair have offered two prizes to the two handsomest babies— one a girl and the other a boy—to be ex- hibited at the fair, Tho managers, how- ever, have probably not well con- sidered the grave responsibility that they are mssuming, nor have they thought of the serious results that are liable to arise. Of courso the proud mothers of Nobraska will be in attendance in full force with their babies, ail rigzed out in the most attractive stylos, Now, what 1s likely to happen at this baby exposition? in'the first place there will boso many young- sters 80 much alike that if their tage should be lost their mothers would bo unable to identify them, and they would never know to a certainty whether they got their own babies back. The same calamity might happon if some mischief maker, as in Pinafore, should swap tage But worso yet he youngster with the whooping cough is bound fo be there, as well as the kid with the measlea or some other disease that la bound to catch the average baby. But the worst feature of the whole affair is the character of the prizes. A barrel of apples, fresh from a Nebraska orchard, is to bo given to cach of the winners. What in the world do the managers mean by giving a barrel of apples when a single apple would answer just as welll Do the managers know anything about babies at ull? Have they ever raised any? Do they labor under the impression that babies are born with teeth and can eat a barrel of apples, or even one apple, be- fore they are two years old. It is hoped that if the managers carry out their baby show they will offer more appropriate prizes. Why not offer a baby buggy or a patent swing, or a cradle, or something of that kind? But in the interest of the infantile population of Nebraska I em- phatically protest against the proposed baby show, as it is exposing them to many dangers, including green apples.” - — Mothe Lincoln Journal, The Omaha Republican sees some evi- dence of restored harmony in the Third district, and it at once pounces savagely on Mr. Dors hom it seems to hold responsible for the -existence of it. 1t geems that the republicans who wandered iu-Law Tactics, “|off after ML ing company. “First rate,” replied he; ‘o are pushing the work right along in every part of the city, and our work is giving general satisfaction, Asphalt is found to be the favorite pavement in Omaha and in every other city when- ever it is put down properly. 1t is be- ing used to-day more extensively in Europe than any other kind of pavement. See what Max Meyer says about it,” said Mr,Squires, who handed the Bee man a letter from Max Meyer, from which the following is extracted: *‘Since I left Omaha I have seen a great deal of this world, I first went to London, where I saw a great many streets paved with as- phalt, snd apon inquis learnod that every one ikedl‘n r{md of pavement very much. In fact they are taking up stone in a great many streets and replac- ing it with asphalt or wood, In the wood pavement the crevic lled with as- phalt. In Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague, Brussel., and Paris I found more or less paving with asphalt or wood, but no stone or granite is being used in the new pavements They claim it is too noisy, and too hard on vehicles and horses. In Paris the leading boulevards are paved with asphalt; and I can assure you that it is quite a relief when you are out driving, after having driven over stone, to get on an asphalt street. * * * In Vienna there is any amount of asphalt paving going on all the time. 1 reached Berlin some weeks ago, and have had ample time and opportunity to get around this city, I think iv would do you good, as an asphalt man, to see what they are doing here. It seems as if half the town is torn up. The granite is being takea up and replaced with asphalt, and at a much higher price than we are paying in Owma- {cHIcAGO. K. Turner two years have returned to the party.” Ther certainly no great political crime in thi It has been the Journal’s views for years that those who go astray in time of great excltement and under tho im- pulse of wrath and Dbitterness should be duly and kindly sought after when passions have cooled, and that the olive branch should be nailed to tho gate-post of the party fold. It must be admitted that 1f the majority of these wanderers in the third district are not brought or do mnot come back into the party ranks that there is a dismal pros- pect for the election of a republi- can congressman. Ths Republican does not belong to the third district, and any attempt by it to govern that district will be a disastrous failure. We concede its right to rule the big first if nobody kicks, and to rule it anyhow if the majority desire. But its meddling in affairs outside its legitimate sphere is but laying the ground ior party dissen- sion and paving the way to possible defeat—though it may be this is what the Republican wants, But it is hardly pos- sible that its mother-in-law tactics will avail anything. He Opened a Shrewd Man's Eyes, From the San Francisco Post, There is a cheap clothing dealer on Kearney, near California street, whose confidence in mankind has received a se- vero sotback. The other day an honest- looking countryman walked into his store and said: “‘Youremember that second-hand over- coat I bought here for &8 yesterday?’ “‘Nover dakes pack anythings ven once solt, my frent,” said the iand.me downer. “Oh! that's all right. T just wanted to say that I found this $500 bill sewed in the lining, Perhaps tho ownor may call for it.” ¢ Of gorse he vill- has call already, my tear trent,” ex ied the dealer, eagerly capturing the money. “*You ish von honish man, Here, I gif you feefty tollar ash a rev: Dot vill be all right.” When the hones customer got around the corner hie murmured softly: I guess I'd better take the fifty and skip up to Portland before that sheeny tumbles to that counterfeit. It's getting mighty hard to shove the ‘queer’ 'round these parts, and that's a fact.” TEST YOUR BAKING POWDER T0-DAY: Brands advertised as absolutely pure CONTAIN AMMONIA. 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